Reading Time: < 1 minute Today marks the release of the successor to the award-winning* Power BI Quest text adventure for Power BI. A lot has changed in gaming as the 1980s have progressed, opening up key advancements in graphics from the original. In this new adventure, you can choose to play as either Bridget, Chad, Faith, or Raul. Search…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although I hesitate to publish this post, did you know that Power BI allows animated GIFs as backgrounds for report pages? I’m not advocating the use of animated GIFs in data visualization. Instead, I’m simply pointing out the possibilities in the tool. There are small variations between the image formats and behavior when inserting an…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The November Power BI Desktop release introduced AI Transforms in Power Query. These functions for Text Analytics, Vision, and Azure Machine Learning are available to enrich your data with basic sentiment, key phrase extraction, vision tags, and whatever you might build with custom models through Azure ML. Premium Capacity One of the things that…
Reading Time: < 1 minute My colleagues at BlueGranite have been posting some great Power BI content recently. Please check out what they’ve been up to! As a whole, we have a lot of collective experience on the BlueGranite team, and it’s great when we’re able to share some of our knowledge with the public rather than keep it internal.…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Orthographic projection is a way to use two-dimensional space to represent three-dimensional objects. In Microsoft Power BI, this 3D effect can be achieved quite easily if you have a set of coordinates in three separate columns that compose (x,y,z). In the following sample, I used a dataset with coordinates taken from the profile of a…